Car Fact #123 — October 17, 2026

The Rimac Concept_One’s regenerative braking system deliberately wastes approximately 8% of kinetic energy as heat during deceleration because engineers discovered that perfectly efficient energy recovery would create such extreme electromagnetic drag that it would actually unsettle the car’s rear end during panic stops on slippery surfaces—so they intentionally reduced recovery efficiency to preserve stability, trading theoretical range for real-world safety.